How To Root and Install Custom Recovery on HTC Desire X Dual SIM

Today, you’ll learn How To Root and Flash Custom Recovery on HTC Desire X with the easiest method and step by step instructions from us. HTC Desire is one the first Dual-SIM smartphone from HTC. Desire X come with 4 inch display with 800 x 480 screen resolution and HTC Sense 4 on the top of Android 4.0 ICS. HTC Desire X is packed with 1 GHz dual-core processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and Adreno 203 GPU. Device has 4 GB of internal storage with support of external SD upto 32 GB and 768 MB of RAM. Desire X come with 5 MP camera with WVGA video recording support and features like Auto-focus, Geo-tagging and face detection. The phone incorporates GPRS, EDGE and 3G technology. The HTC Desire C is also WiFi enabled with Hotspot feature and A-GPS support.

Warnings:

Below are some warning statements that you must be knowing before preparing to Root or Install Custom Rom in your HTC Desire X Android Smartphone/Tablet:

There are certain risks of damaging your Android Smartphone/Tablets while Rooting/Installing Custom ROM in it. Hence, it is recommended that you proceed at your own risk and we are not to be held responsible even if your Smartphone gets damaged during or after completing the Rooting/Custom ROM installation process.

You might not receive any future official software or firmware updates after rooting and installing Custom ROM in your HTC Desire X.

How To Install Custom Recovery:

Connect your device to your PC. If there are drivers being installed at this point, let them do so before continuing.

Hold the Shift key and right-click on the Android folder, then click on Open command prompt window here.

Run the following commands (ignore the text in the brackets, which is for information purposes only): adb reboot-bootloader [boots your device to bootloader mode]. After booting into Bootloader Mode type: fastboot flash recovery Custom_recovery.img [flashes custom recovery to your device]

7. Restart your device once done.

How To Root Your Device:

Install CWM Recovery with above method. Boot your device into ClockworkMod Recovery. To do this, power off your device, and hold the Power plus Volume Down buttons until you boot into fastboot mode. Now, use the Volume Up/Down keys to navigate to select bootloader and then recovery option and use the Power button to select it.

Once in custom recovery, select Install zip from sdcard.

Next, select Choose zip from sdcard.

Navigate to the location of UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.89.zip and select it, then confirm the flash on the next screen.